Due Date: Monday of each week. |
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Journal Expectations
For each week's reading, you will choose one of the assigned readings and
1)write a summary of the work (paragraph 1), 2)an intellectual response (paragraph 2), then 3) a personal reaction (paragraph 3), trying to find how it connects to you. These can be handwritten or typed. These should be no less than three paragraphs long. Spending twenty to thirty minutes in the writing process would be appropriate, not much more than that though.
At the end of the week, you will choose one of the week's entries, revise, and rewrite it. Now you should worry about what you say and how you say it. In the rough form you were trying to catch your ideas; in this form, you are trying to present those ideas to another audience.
A rewritten journal entry should be between 300 and 600 words in length. These typed journal entries (TJEs) will be minimally marked -- a
will receive 10 points, a + will receive 12 points and a ++ will receive 14 points. The more energy you put into the journal the higher the score. In addition, please keep all of your journal entries, both handwritten and typed, together in one small 3 clasp binder, as I will collect them at the end of the quarter.
Journal Hints:
Write three days per week -- keep in three clasp binder; on Friday, choose one, rewrite it, proof it; be sure to include author, title and source in summary; be sure to include one paragraph summary, at least one paragraph reaction (heady), and at least one paragraph experience (physical); give the whole thing a title that alludes to the meaning of your TJE; take risks, be brave, use vocabulary that is exciting and lively!
To view TJEs by former Poetry students, click here.